Nothing Can Beat Good Ol VS Code [Video]

Several companies are trying to build the best AI coding tool in the market. While GitHub Copilot and Anysphere’s Cursor tried to steal the spotlight in the initial days, Microsoft’s Visual Code Studio (VS Code) took the lead again in 2024. 

VS Code has remained a polarising tool in the developer community. While some revere and critique it, the tool has never been ignored. No matter how many competing platforms emerge, VS Code remains the center of the debate, embodying both power and complexity. Cursor is also a fork of VS Code, but with some added AI sprinkles. 

“Not sure if Microsoft can truly comprehend the true footprint of VSCode,” said Jaana Dogan, principal engineer at Google. Even though many developers uninstalled VS Code and moved to using Cursor and hundreds of other forks of VS Code, they soon realised that a good coder can never be replaced, even if they are content with VS Code.  

“All the best programmers I know just …